When Your Speaking Is Denied, Where Are You?

Speaking cannot be stopped. But on what ground are you speaking?

Job Chapter 15

Eliphaz speaks again.

“Should a wise person answer with empty knowledge?”

“Your speaking removes reverence.”

Job’s words themselves

are denied.

Not the content,

but the speaking itself

is questioned.

Not what is said,

but the act of speaking

is treated as the problem.

When a person’s speaking is denied,

they lose the place where they stand.

You are wrong.

You should not speak.

When such words are spoken,

speech begins to stop.

Yet it cannot be stopped.

Job continues to speak.

Eliphaz continues to question.

Both speak

from within their own righteousness.

They are not aware

of this ground.

People continue speaking

from their own righteousness,

without realizing it.

When your speaking is denied,

where are you?

On what ground

are you speaking?

Eliphaz denies Job’s speaking,

yet Job continues.

But both speak

from their own righteousness.

God was still silent.